Author: TAMW
Subject: Z97M Anniversity OC limit?
Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 11:19pm
Threw in the i7 4790k yesterday, and holy damn that thing was hot! over 80c on the hottest core on STOCK.
Investigated the contact, and of course that IHS fugger was bent like a banana.
So I lapped the cpu, and it got a bit better, dropped 10-15c or so.
Got it running 4.4ghz 1.15v and primes at about 75-78c on the hottest core. Not too bad, but not alot of headroom either. Not that it matters, cpu is drawing 130w during prime, so vrms throttles in about a minute.
I tried dropping vcore to 1.1v, primes fine, but get random restarts so Im just running it at 4.4 1.15v now. won't get anywhere near 100% load for long periods anyway.
Battlefield now runs smooth atleast, 60-70% cpu load on average.![Smile]( "Smile")
Will hold me comfy until a nice matx zen board comes along![LOL]( "LOL")
Subject: Z97M Anniversity OC limit?
Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 11:19pm
Threw in the i7 4790k yesterday, and holy damn that thing was hot! over 80c on the hottest core on STOCK.
Investigated the contact, and of course that IHS fugger was bent like a banana.
So I lapped the cpu, and it got a bit better, dropped 10-15c or so.
Got it running 4.4ghz 1.15v and primes at about 75-78c on the hottest core. Not too bad, but not alot of headroom either. Not that it matters, cpu is drawing 130w during prime, so vrms throttles in about a minute.
I tried dropping vcore to 1.1v, primes fine, but get random restarts so Im just running it at 4.4 1.15v now. won't get anywhere near 100% load for long periods anyway.
Battlefield now runs smooth atleast, 60-70% cpu load on average.
Will hold me comfy until a nice matx zen board comes along
